who issued their debut a month before Cut the Crap. Though the Clash's album did chart in the Top 20 in the U.K., it struggled to make Top 100 in the U.S. and sank without a trace. Over the years ...

Y" on Cut the Crap) is a perfectly tasty Clash track. "We Are the Clash" is the only track on the album that directly reflects the fight going on between the Jones and Strummer camps at the time.

The band continued expanding into funk and even new wave, but their career spun out quickly with a lineup change and an ...

The Cut the Crap tour finished before the album even came out, and they often only performed “This Is England” from the collection. Guitarists Nick Sheppard and Vince White were brought in to ...

But is Cut The Crap as bad as its reputation suggests? Frankly, yes. From the cluttered opening fanfare of “Dictator,” it’s clear that something has gone terribly wrong, with The Clash’s ...

But when they fell off, they fell off. The Clash recorded their final album, 1985’s Cut The Crap, after co-leader Mick Jones had left the band, and pretty much every Clash fan barely ...

30 This Is England Single A-side, September 1985, from the album Cut The Crap, November 1985 DON LETTS: I made a Clash documentary called Westway To The World. We stopped at Combat Rock ...

“Cut the Crap,” before packing it in. Yet even an uneven Clash album contains more greatness than most, and along with the two hit singles, the highlight of “Combat Rock” is the vividly ...

Few bands in rock history flamed out at their commercial peak as sadly as the Clash. A new documentary tells the story of the legendary English punk group, who called it quits in 1986, three years ...